Nutritionists Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole are the authors of the Intuitive Eating program, helping overeaters reach their ideal weight and stop the vicious cycle of dieting and binging. Their understanding is that the "willpower" required for dieting creates a bound-to-lose war against the body that can be circumvented by attuning to the body's inner frequencies. Instead of measuring how much you should eat by how much food is on your plate, for example, you learn to become aware of when you are full and what foods your body is craving vs. what is on your plate. Intuitive Eating is a four-CD audiobook that details every aspect of the program as well as supplies meditation guidance and affirmations to help the beginner on the road to eating "just enough" of "just the right foods." Your body knows what it wants, the trouble is, "you" don't, and the addictive comfort of eating can be a distraction from issues within you that you may be trying to avoid.

Resch and Tribole both speak in a natural, conversational tone. Discussing their mission statement, Resch notes: "I believe he or she is born with all the wisdom they need to learn how to eat." Tribole then discusses the 10 principles to intuitive eating, the first step being to reject the diet mentality and subsequent steps including "making peace with food" (the more you "quit" something the more you desire it), dealing with "fullness," and discovering the "satisfaction factor." Meditations and visualizations also follow to help you disassociate food from your emotions.

A lot of this is common sense you may already know on some level, but it's great to hear it all bundled up and concentrated into a series of well thought-out exercises and examples. With the natural speaking styles of the authors creating a feeling somewhere between a holistic nutrition consult and a chat with friends, Intuitive Eating isódare I say itóeasy to swallow. If our appetites are a radio, the static of a dozen competing channels is what creates the need to be always fiddling with the dials. Intuitive Eating shows us how to tune in and stop worrying about a perfect reception. Just listen to what Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole have to say, and let eating become the healthy, natural process it's meant to be.